Graduierten-Programm Experimental Medicine

Ziel/ Aim

The Graduate Program Experimental Medicine aims at creating a high standard training and supervision program for doctoral candidates of the Medical Faculty. The program allows broad qualification in topics of molecular and experimental medicine and will familiarize students with modern laboratory techniques. Language and soft skill courses, including the training of communication, presentation, and public speaking, will also be provided. The doctoral studies are supervised by a thesis committee and documented in annual research reports.

The Graduate Program Experimental Medicine belongs to the JSMM (Link JSMM), which in turn is a member of the Jena Graduate Academy (JGA). The JSMM coordinates four graduate programs: the

the Graduate Program Experimental Medicine,
the Jena School for Ageing Medicine (Link JSAM),
the GRK 2155 "ProMoAge" (Link GRK 2155 - ProMoAge)
and the Leibniz Graduate School on Aging and Age-Related Diseases (LGSA) (Link LGSA).

The Graduate Program Experimental Medicine is open to doctoral students of life sciences and medicine coming from different research groups of the Medical Faculty.

Anforderungen / Requirements

Anforderungen/Requirements

Doctoral students are expected to participate in the activities of their respective groups and departments, to attend the announced lecture series and progress reports, to complete method and soft skill courses, to have regular meetings with their thesis committees, and to submit annual reports about their work. It is the responsibility of the doctoral student to call the committee meetings.

The thesis committee for PhD students consists of the project leader plus two group leaders or senior postdocs outside the group of the project leader. For medical students 2 thesis committee members are required. The supervisor and the thesis committee will monitor the quality and progress of the PhD project. The committee will advise and help the PhD student and sort out potentially occurring disagreements. The committee can be contacted whenever appropriate or necessary.

The tables below announce the requirements that have to be met to receive a certificate of the Graduate Program Experimental Medicine at the end of the doctoral studies. The participants need to complete all mandatory events or tasks and in addition two (PhD) or one (MD) out of six elective activities per year. The participation in the different events and the different activities has to be listed and to be confirmed by the project leader. The sum of the required activities per 3 years corresponds to 21 ECTS points for PhD students and 7 ECTS points for MD students (ECTS = European Credit Transfer System).

Anmeldung / Registration

Anmeldung/Registration

Doctoral students need to:

register in the university’s doc-in system (www.uni-jena.de/doc-in)
apply for the admission as a doctoral student at the Medical Faculty or at the Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy (http://www.uniklinikum-jena.de/Studium/Medizinische+Fakult%C3%A4t/Akademische+Verfahren/Promotion/Antragsformulare.html; https://www.bio.uni-jena.de/en/graduate-studies-habilitation-office)
fill in and have the supervision agreement signed, which has to be sent to the coordinator of the Graduate Program Experimental Medicine () (see downloads)

Vorlesungen / Lecture Program

Vorlesungen/ Lecture Program

Currently lectures will take place in person at specified location on indicated dates (Thursdays), from 16:00 - 17:30.

Lecture 2025

Date	Place	Topic	Referent
23.01.2025	SR-10 F2.U1	Heavily studies but full of suprises: respiratory cI as the Na+/H+ antiporter	Prof. Dr. Jose Enriquez
27.02.2025	HS 2	FACS and CyTOF new diagnostic tools	PD Dr. Christian Kosan
17.03.2025	HS 2	JSMM Minisymposium - Personalized Medicine in Oncology
10.04.2025	HS 2	Hearing across the lifespan: Mongolian gerbils as a model	Prof. Dr. Georg Klump
15.05.2025	HS 2	Hippo Signaling-driven Lung Fibrosis by Influenza A Virus Infection in Lung Fibroblast	PD Dr. Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer
11.06.2025	HS 2	JSMM Minisymposium - Perspectives on Sex and Gender in Medicine
26.06.2025	HS 2	Machine-learning based histo-molecular assessment of treatment response in ulcerative colitis - a real-life cohort study	Dr. Matthias Friedrich
11.09.2025	HS 2	Simple applications of fluorescence imaging	Dr. Amod Godbole
16.10.2025	HS 2	tba
06.11.2025	HS 2	tba
27.11.2025	HS 2	JSMM Minisymposium

Lecture Archive

Lecture 2024

Date	Place	Topic	Referent
25.01.2024	SR-10 F2.U1	Methods to study transcriptional regulation	Prof. Dr. Otmar Huber
22.02.2024	Oval Office	Why do we need reliable sepsis experimentation?	Prof. Dr. Ralf Claus
21.03.2024	SR-10 F2.U1	In vitro and in vivo Methods for Hematogenous Metastasis Research at the Institute of Anatomy I in Jena	Prof. Dr. Tobias Lange
25.04.2024	SR-1, Seminar- container	The mechanism(s) of Ras activation - two decades of surprises surrounding the regulation of the most potent human proto-oncoprotein	Prof. Dr. Ignacio Rubio
06.06.2024	SR-10 F2.U1	Neuronal networks: Development, plasticity and pathomechanisms	Prof. Dr. Britta Qualmann
19.09.2024	SR-10 F2.U1	What is Health Services Research and How Can It Help Integrate Medical Research Findings into Everyday Care	Prof. Dr. Verena Vogt
07.11.2024	HS 2	Enhancing interpretation of omics data - interactivity meets reproducibility	Dr. Federico Marini

Lecture 2023

Date	Place	Topic	Referent
12.01.2023	Oval Office	In vivo imaging	Prof. Dr. Knut Holthoff
09.02.2023	Oval Office	Parenchymal Immunity in Life-Threatening Infections	Jun.-Prof. Dr. Adrian T. Press
09.03.2023	Oval Office	Influenza viruses – a challenge for host response, prophylaxis and treatment	Prof. Dr. Michaela Schmidtke
13.04.2023	SR-10 F2.U1	Biologically active implants for infection prophylaxis	Prof. Dr. Britt Wildemann
11.05.2023	Oval Office	Dissecting mechanisms of host-pathogen interaction in organ-on-chip	PD Dr. Alexander Mosig
22.06.2023	Oval Office	Transgenic mouse models	Dr. Christopher Hennings
14.09.2023	online (Zoom)	Novel techniques for the detection of transcription factor binding in eukaryotic cells	Dr. Tino Schenk
12.10.2023	Oval Office	Simple applications of fluorescence imaging	Dr. Amod Godbole
09.11.2023	SR-10 F2.U1	Embryonic and adult stem cells derived in vitro models for research	Prof. Dr. Maria Wartenberg
07.12.2023	SR-10 F2.U1	Applying bioinformatics to identify host factors of viruses from screening data	Prof. Dr. Rainer König

Lecture 2022

Date	Topic	Referent
13.01.2022	Cytokine receptors – Biochemistry and pathobiochemistry	Prof. Dr. Karlheiz Friedrich
10.02.2022	Good Scientific Practice	Dr. Hendrik Huthoff
10.03.2022	Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells in fungal infections	Dr. Susanne Jahreis
07.04.2022	Regulation of Ras activity and signaling: Where are we 40 years after the discovery of the first oncogene?	Prof. Dr. Ignacio Rubio
12.05.2022	Stable genetic manipulation of mammalian cells	PD Dr. Jörg Müller
23.06.2022	Defining drug targets in disease	Prof. Dr. Aria Baniahmad
10.11.2022	Quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomics for biomedical research	Prof. Dr. Florian Meier-Rosar

Lecture 2021

Date	Topic	Referent
14.01.2021	How to measure brain perfusion in rodents and humans? - A journey through imaging methods in a translational context	Dr. Alexander Jörk
11.03.2021	Analyses of eukaryotic gene regulation	Dr. Tino Schenk
15.04.2021	Live-cell fluorescence imaging using high-resolution microscopy	Dr. Amod Godbole
26.05.2021	The amyloid cascade – is the model still valid for Alzheimer’s disease?	Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Haass (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
17.06.2021	JSMM Minisymposium on Autophagy	Prof. Dr. Judith Klumperman (University Medical Center Utrecht) Prof. Dr. Tassula Proikas-Cezanne (Eberhard Karls University Tübingen) Prof. Dr. Christian Hübner
15.07.2021	Immuno-oncology: clinical and translational perspectives	Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hacker (Leipzig University Medical Center)
17.08.2021	COVID-19 as a systemic disease	Dr. Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer
09.09.2021	Sepsis and its models in translational medicine	Prof. Dr. Ralf Claus
07.10.2021	FACS and CyTOF new diagnostic tools	PD Dr. Christian Kosan
04.11.2021	Phosphorylation-deficient G-protein-biased μ-opioid receptors improve analgesia and diminish tolerance but worsen opioid side effects	Dr. Andrea Kliewer
02.12.2021	Neural stem cells and adult neurogenesis in Neuroscience research	PD Dr. Silke Keiner

Lecture 2020

Date	Topic	Referent
16.01.2020	Translational nanotechnology	Dr. Adrian Press
13.02.2020	Genetically-encoded fluorescent sensors – principles and applications	PD Dr. Roland Schönherr
12.03.2020	Respiratory viral diseases - an overview of pathogens and diagnostics	Dr. Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer
16.04.2020	cancelled due to COVID-19	-
14.05.2020	cancelled due to COVID-19	-
11.06.2020	Organ on Chip: novel tools in biomedicine	PD Dr. Alexander Mosig
09.07.2020	Mental health during the doctorate	Dr. Hendrik Huthoff
13.08.2020	Research data management	Dr. Volker Schwartze / Dr. Bettina Färber
03.09.2020	Molecular mechanisms in autoimmune encephalitis – New translational research approaches	Dr. Holger Haselmann
08.10.2020	Investigating muscle stem function	Dr. Julia von Maltzahn
05.11.2020	Computational Epigenomics	Prof. Dr. Steve Hoffmann
03.12.2020	Multi-color-flow cytometry and Mass Cytometry (CyTOF) - new ways to get the most out of your cells	PD Dr. Christian Kosan

Lecture 2019

Date	Topic	Referent
20.01.2019	Flourenscence microscopy applications: from cellular signal transduction to medical applications	Prof. Dr. Carsten Hoffmann
07.03.2019	Molecular Cloning	PD Dr. Jörg Müller
04.04.2019	Transgenic Mouse Models	Dr. Chirstopher Hennings
28.04.2019	Lipidomics	Prof. Dr. Andreas Koeberle
02.05.2019	Life Cell Imaging	Dr. Amod Gobole
22.08.2019	Analysis of gene regulation by reporter gene approaches - Principles and applications in current research	Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Friedrich
19.09.2019	Behavioural studies in mice	Dr. Anja Urbach
17.10.2019	Functional analysis of gene regulation	Dr. Tino Schenk
14.11.2019	Molecular cloning and application of Crisp / Cas 9 techniques	Prof. Dr. Ralf Mrwoka

Lecture 2018

Date	Topic	Referent
22.02.2018	I/2018 - Start of new program in 2018	Prof. Dr. Regine Heller
22.03.2018	II/2018 - "Mass spectrometry based proteomics"	Dr. Alessandro Ori, FLI
19.04.2018	III/2018 - "The CRISPR/Cas9 way - the new toolbox for molecular biologists"	Prof. Dr. Jörg Müller
24.05.2018	IV/2018 -"Fluorescence microscopy"	Dr. Ralf Schmauder
31.05.-01.06.2018	IZKF Retreat Graduate Program Experimental Medicine in Oberhof
14.06.2018	V/IZKF-Lecture and RTG 1715-Lecture "Basics of Epigenetics"	Dr. Holger Bierhoff
25.10.2018	Multi-color-flow cytometry and Mass Cytometry (CyTOF) - new ways to get the most out of your cells	Dr. Christian Kosan
06.12.2018	IZKF- biostatistics course	Prof. Dr. André Scherag

Lecture 2017

Date	Topic	Referent
12.01.2017	"Protein kinases and protein phosphatases as targets of anti-cancer drugs"	Prof. Dr. Frank Böhmer
26.01.2017	"New techniques of genome editing"	PD Dr. Jörg Müller
09.02.2017	RTG 1715 guest lecture „Immune system and tissue radiobiology“	Prof. Dr. Claudia Fournier
23.02.2017	"Virus/host interactions in picornavirus-infected cells"	Prof. Dr. Andreas Henke
09.03.2017	"The energy of cancer"	PD. Dr. Ignacio Rubio
22.03.2017	RTG 1715 guest lecture “Insights into (1→3,1→6)-b-glucans in innate immunity”	Prof. David L. Williams, Tennessee State University
06.04.2017	General Skills	P. Wagner
20.04.2017	Cancelled - RTG1715 guest lecture "Radiation-induced normal lung damage: from tissue responses to novel treatment concepts"	Prof. Verena Jendrossek University Duisburg/Essen
04.05.2017	"Tumor cell phenotype transitions: tumor progress and therapy resistance"	Prof. Dr. Alexander Berndt
18.05.2017	"Signal transduction of cytokine receptors – biochemistry and pathobiochemistry"	Prof. Dr. K. H. Friedrich
01.06.2017	"Lipid signalling in inflammation"	Prof. Dr. Markus Gräler
15.06.2017	RTG 1715 guest lecture, "Relevance of hormesis in learning and memory: from physiology to Alzheimer's disease"	Prof. Daniela Puzzo, University of Catania, Italy
29.06.2017	"Epigenetic alterations in leukemia as a basis for novel therapies"	PD Dr. Thomas Ernst
13.07.2017	"Nuclear hormone receptors in molecular medicine"	Prof. Dr. Aria Baniahmad
27.07.2017	"Seed and soil: targeting the interaction between tumour cells and microenvironment as a way to treat cancer. The myeloma example."	Dr. Annamaria Brioli
10.08.2017	"Introduction into electrophysiology"	PD Dr. Roland Schönherr
24.08.2017	"Killing two birds with one stone - targeting the fatal interplay of influenzaviral and pneumococcal neuraminidases by dual acting inhibitors"	PD Dr. Michaela Schmidtke
07.09.2017	General skills	P. Wagner
21.09.2017	Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and Related Techniques	Dr. Ralf Schmauder
05.10.2017	Introduction to Photoshop and Scientific Illustrations	Kalla Pavan Kumar
19.10.2017	RTG 1715 guest lecture (to be defined later)	Prof. Hans Reul, University of Bristol
02.11.2017	"Identification of gene regulatory factors"	Dr. Tino Schenk
16.11.2017	to be defined later	Prof. Dr. Verena Jendrossek, Sprecherin GRK 1739, Institut für Zellbiologie (Tumorforschung), Duisburg / Essen
30.11.2017	General skills	P. Wagner